Streaming Squid Game Discussion Thread - SPOILERS INSIDE

[Gasometer]

Well I am up to Ep 5 and it’s been good enough to be different from S1. I have scrolled thru this thread to avoid spoilers but I just wanted to wonder aloud here why McDonalds thought this was a good tie in and why Luna Park Sydney has a SG set up…like do any of their airheads actually watch SG?

 

[peternorth]

The backstory was about her mother at the time of the Korean War and the abuse she suffered - then passing on to her daughter the need to be prepared for anything

Hopefully to stab her idiot son with

Spoiler: theory

she's in on the game, a possible front woman style person

yes. but surely upon entry the pinkys would check contestants for weapons etc

 

[peternorth]

Well I am up to Ep 5 and it’s been good enough to be different from S1. I have scrolled thru this thread to avoid spoilers but I just wanted to wonder aloud here why McDonalds thought this was a good tie in and why Luna Park Sydney has a SG set up…like do any of their airheads actually watch SG?

If the organisers are fair dinkum theyd kill off some of the patrons

 

[Cleavy]

Well I am up to Ep 5 and it’s been good enough to be different from S1. I have scrolled thru this thread to avoid spoilers but I just wanted to wonder aloud here why McDonalds thought this was a good tie in and why Luna Park Sydney has a SG set up…like do any of their airheads actually watch SG?

$$$$

 

[Gasometer]

$$$$

True, but no cents

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Also the games were extremely lame this time. No tension at all.

Mingle was great.

I think the really tense games are still to come, just like S1 ramping up with Marbles and the Glass Bridge.

 

[raskolnikov]

Watch the mingle game again. When the songs on watch thanos. I lost my shit

Genuinely lol'd at that scene.

 

[peternorth]

Genuinely lol'd at that scene.

It’s gone viral. The funniest scene in squid game history

 

[SportsCentre]

Mingle was great.

I think the really tense games are still to come, just like S1 ramping up with Marbles and the Glass Bridge.

Marbles in S1 changed the whole series for me.
From conditioning everyone to work together and look after those you are fond of, to now you're going to kill one another.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Done with the first ep.

Are people watching in Korean with subtitles or dubbed English?

I’ve settled on Korean, the dubbing sounded so jarring to me.

Always in Korean, it's such an expressive language. Tried going to dubbing in the season 1 scenes with the VIPs speaking in English and it was worse.

 

[Gasometer]

It’s gone viral. The funniest scene in squid game history

Is that where they joined arms and twirled around the pair of them Peter?

I have 1.5 eps to go

Still enjoying it; the games are just as intense; I want my faves to get through each game

 

[peternorth]

Is that where they joined arms and twirled around the pair of them Peter?

I have 1.5 eps to go

Still enjoying it; the games are just as intense; I want my faves to get through each game

Sure is gassy. I admit the first time I viewed it I missed it.

 

[Gasometer]

Sure is gassy. I admit the first time I viewed it I missed it.

As sure as I typed that Peter I looked at TikTok there it was …and more and more and more

I was so worried for Grandma in that scene.

Spoiler

With the 1.5 episodes left I am fearing who will be left out of the little gang that have made it this far…surely they all can’t make it

The weakest part of the season has been the comedy capers on the Boat. Useless.

 

[peternorth]

As sure as I typed that Peter I looked at TikTok there it was …and more and more and more

I was so worried for Grandma in that scene.

Spoiler

With the [emoji637].[emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]] episodes left I am fearing who will be left out of the little gang that have made it this far…surely they all can’t make it

The weakest part of the season has been the comedy capers on the Boat. Useless.

The boat does contain the captain who is mysterious now

 

[Gasometer]

..and up to date. That was a full on last episode and a pity that we need to wait for whenever this year to finish it off

 

[Forward Press]

Spoiler: Spoiler for boat crew

Sort of saw it coming, but the captain being the mole also explains why the search for the past months have been fruitless

Overall, a good season, and eagerly awaiting S3. Sort of irritated that it is effectively S2 Part 2 but I do give credit to the show's writers that we have some fairly decent new characters.

 

[peternorth]

Spoiler: Spoiler for boat crew

Sort of saw it coming, but the captain being the mole also explains why the search for the past months have been fruitless

Overall, a good season, and eagerly awaiting S3. Sort of irritated that it is effectively S2 Part 2 but I do give credit to the show's writers that we have some fairly decent new characters.

The ultimate twist of twists

would be that front mans bro in law knew the captain was the enemy and was playing him the whole time

 

[apollo_creed]

The ultimate twist of twists

What if he knew that he knew that he knew?

 

[peternorth]

What if he knew that he knew that he knew?

 

[Gasometer]

I really regret not watching a Season 1 recap; I had no idea who was who in the first episode

2021 is a whitewash of memory for me. A year robbed so remembering S1 was a challenge

 

[T2B_]

Caught up with it all last night.

Overall enjoyed it quite a bit, notwithstanding some odd decisions by characters, especially 456's plan at the end. Seemed like one of desperation and surprised me how he suddenly was cool to make a bunch of sacrifices, but then again maybe he was just that desperate and I suppose if not for Front Man, it probably would have came off.

I really really liked 120 (sorry, I just can't remember Korean names generally). Thought they handled a trans character better than a lot of Western media tbh. A real vulnerability to the character but also shit-ton of inner strength when the chips were down, thanks to the special forces background she was definitely one of the most kickass people when it came to gun play.

I also had to look up if the main character was the same actor (it is):



Bit of a difference in appearance in a few years

 

[GreyCrow]

I also had to look up if the main character was the same actor (it is):

Bit of a difference in appearance in a few years

It could be a natural extension of time

OR

It was a deliberate choice to highlight the driving desire - over food and sustenance - that trying to find out who ran the game entailed

 

[GreyCrow]

Not sure if anyone else has spotted this but Google have an Easter Egg tag that floats on the screen (when you search Squid Game) and clicking it takes you to the Doll Game/Red Light Green Light where you have to get 6 people across the line

 

[peternorth]

I also had to look up if the main character was the same actor (it is):

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Bit of a difference in appearance in a few years

Not only the same actor but the same character

 

[peternorth]

So with some of the players killed in battle with the playstation heads, do the organisers still put ₩1,000,000 into the suspended piggy bank per dead?